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Post by notdarkyet on Jun 16, 2010 19:09:29 GMT -5

Last night I made a playlist with everyone I saw there and did a line-in recording for 11 hours while I was asleep. It worked well but the sample rate I used was low so the quality isn't very good. (Had to go low due to the extremely long recording) I think I'm going to scrap that and work at it artist by artist. I just finished doing Jimmy Cliff at 96000 but the resultant .WAV file is 2 GB, which is way too big for megaupload. I'll try compressing it down and see how it sounds then. If it's good I'll track it out and post here. Otherwise, I may go at it a third time with yet another sample rate setting. Any experienced audio folks have recommendations for what settings to use?

Post by notdarkyet on Jun 16, 2010 23:12:39 GMT -5

I ended up using audacity to track the 2 gb 96000 sample rate file by putting in project labels and then exporting multiple mp3s at 320 kbps. It should finish uploading to rapidshare within the next twenty minutes and you can tell me how I did. If it continue to work additional ones I'm thinking about dropping down to 44100 but not sure how that's going to sound comparatively. 44100 is the equivalent to cd quality, isn't it? Don't know where I get that impression just seems to be a common standard in things I see posted.

Post by Kanye West on Jun 17, 2010 1:54:31 GMT -5

Last night I made a playlist with everyone I saw there and did a line-in recording for 11 hours while I was asleep. It worked well but the sample rate I used was low so the quality isn't very good. (Had to go low due to the extremely long recording) I think I'm going to scrap that and work at it artist by artist. I just finished doing Jimmy Cliff at 96000 but the resultant .WAV file is 2 GB, which is way too big for megaupload. I'll try compressing it down and see how it sounds then. If it's good I'll track it out and post here. Otherwise, I may go at it a third time with yet another sample rate setting. Any experienced audio folks have recommendations for what settings to use?

Dude, I've been doing this for a few days now. Use Audacity, really listen to it and master the levels (NPR isn't exactly trying to make these perfect), then take the WAV file, use Wave Tracker or something else to insert splits, run them out, take the WAV splits and load them in iTunes, name/track all the necessary fields, then convert to 320 kbps MP3s. Anything less and you're putting potentially unwieldy and/or shoddy files out there.

Post by Kanye West on Jun 17, 2010 13:13:15 GMT -5

Not exactly. When NPR was broadcasting these sets originally, especially the ones that were actually live-as-it-happened, it wasn't from an MP3 source - there's no way they were encoding it to MP3 on the fly. That's the majority of what I recorded.

When they put them to archive, they're encoding them to MP3 to save space. However, with the exception of Dan Deacon and one or two others, I was pulling things as they were broadcast, not as they were archived. I'm pretty sure even the broadcasts that were a few hours or a day late weren't MP3 sourced - just for kicks, I listened to my original recording of Local Natives and compared it to the archived version, and the original sounds better, and has better highs and lows.

I mean, the difference in sound is going to be very slight, but it's there.

you certainly weren't getting an uncompressed live .wav stream from npr. I can guarantee that while their live stream may have been better quality than the archives, it was still compressed, and likely via mp3